Effective date: July 14, 2026. This Privacy Policy applies to the public Expense Tracker website at financetracking.app. It does not automatically govern data stored inside self-hosted copies of the app, because those installations are controlled by the person or team running them.
This policy covers the public website, including pages such as the homepage, privacy page, and links to the GitHub repository. It explains what information may be processed when someone visits the site or contacts Expense Tracker directly.
Expense Tracker is distributed as self-hosted software. If you run your own copy of the app, the budgeting data, account balances, imported CSV files, and user records inside that installation are controlled by you or your hosting provider. The operator of that installation is responsible for its own privacy disclosures, security controls, backups, and retention practices.
When you visit the website, the hosting platform or content delivery network may automatically process standard request data such as IP address, browser type, device information, referring page, requested URL, timestamps, and basic diagnostic logs. Google Analytics also processes website usage and interaction data as described below. This information is used to deliver and improve the site, prevent abuse, and troubleshoot availability or security issues.
If you contact Expense Tracker by email, the message may include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in the message.
The public website does not provide bank account linking, transaction syncing, or hosted budgeting accounts.
The public website uses Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic, referral sources, page views, and interactions such as navigation. Google Analytics may process identifiers, IP-derived approximate location, browser and device information, requested pages, referral data, and interaction events under Google's own terms and privacy practices. This website measurement is separate from self-hosted Expense Tracker installations and does not read the budget records stored in those installations. Browser privacy controls, content blockers, or Google's available opt-out controls may limit this measurement.
Technical logs and email correspondence may be retained only as long as reasonably necessary for operations, security review, support, recordkeeping, or legal compliance.
Reasonable steps may be taken to protect the website and related communications, but no method of internet transmission or storage is guaranteed to be completely secure. People who self-host the app are responsible for securing their own servers, databases, backups, credentials, and application access.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or additional information about personal data processed for the website. To make a request, contact hello@financetracking.app.
If you deploy Expense Tracker for yourself, your household, or a team, you should publish your own privacy notice describing what budgeting data you store, who can access it, where it is hosted, how long it is kept, and how users can exercise any applicable privacy rights.
This policy may be updated as the website changes. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when material revisions are made.
Privacy questions can be sent to hello@financetracking.app.